James H. Wilson

James Harrison Wilson (2 September 1837-23 February 1925) was a Major-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
James Harrison Wilson was born in Shawneetown, Illinois in 1837, and he graduated from West Point in 1860. Wilson was promoted to Lieutenant in the US Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861, and he was involved with the Port Royal, South Carolina expedition in November 1861 before taking part in the siege of Fort Pulaski and the Maryland campaign of 1862. On 30 October 1863, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, fighting at Chattanooga. On 6 May 1864, he was promoted to Major-General and given command of a cavalry division, fighting in the Valley Campaigns before serving under George Henry Thomas during the Franklin-Nashville campaign of late 1864. In early 1865, he led a raid into the American South, defeating Nathan Bedford Forrest at Selma, Alabama, and he retired from the army in December 1870. Wilson returned to the army for the Spanish-American War in 1898, commanding volunteers in Cuba and Puerto Rico, and he fought in the Boxer Rebellion in 1901 as a Brigadier-General. He died in Wilmington, Delaware in 1925 at the age of 87, and he was outlived by only three other Civil War generals.